Abstract: A window roller blind that has a shade, the free end of which is connected to a pull rod. In order to guide movement of the pull rod during extension and retraction of the roller blind, a support rod is connected to pull rod by means of articulated connection.

Abstract: A side window roll-up shade which has a pull rod attached to a movable edge of a roll-up shade material. The pull rod is carried by two support rods which are guided so that they can move vertically within the door body. At the bottom end of each support rod, a cable is attached, which runs either to a spring motor or to a cable pulley.

Abstract: A sun screen device includes a pair of slide rails, a screen body, and a pair of rods. Each of the slide rails has an end portion. The screen body has lateral ends, and an operating end that interconnects the lateral ends of the screen body and that is movable along the slide rails. The rods are respectively disposed in the slide rails. Each of the rods has an end portion that is coupled to the end portion of the respective one of the slide rails. Each of the lateral ends of the screen body is formed with a loop that is sleeved on a respective one of the rods.

Abstract: A hembar includes front and rear walls and top and bottom spline channels adjacent a top and a bottom of the hembar. Each spline channel receives a spline in an oblique orientation to a vertical line and is arranged to conceal the channel from any viewing location in front of the hembar. A shade fabric is received in the channels through longitudinal slots and the splines are received through an open end. A notch opposite the slot receives part of the shade fabric to facilitate spline insertion. A pocket for a weighting element is off-centered such that it is closer to the rear wall. The hembar is assembled using a support member having obliquely angled walls to support the hembar with one channel horizontally oriented. The front and rear walls of the hembar may be covered by the shade fabric in a full wrap option.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tambour door comprising a door leaf that can be rolled up. The door comprises a vertical roller frame for receiving the door leaf, a sliding bar, to which the rollable door leaf is fixed, and an upper horizontal guide rail, in which the sliding bar is displaceably mounted. The invention facilitates a particularly simple, space-saving, modular construction. The rear face or external face of the roller frame is fixed to a wall and the guide rail is configured as a floating guide rail, which is fixed on one side at least indirectly to the roller frame and on the other side in a fixing element that is fastened at least indirectly to a wall. The door can be used as a lavatory door, or in situations requiring privacy protection for a door opening that economizes on space as much as possible.

Abstract: A window blind includes a shaft unit and a clutch unit. The shaft unit includes a pair of seat members, a shaft member, a tubular member, and a pushing member. The shaft member is mounted rotatably on the seat members. The tubular member is sleeved rotatably around the shaft member. The pushing member is sleeved securely on the shaft member. The clutch unit serves to connect and disconnect the shaft member and a pair of bobbins. When the shaft member is rotated in a first rotational direction, the clutch unit connects the shaft member and tubular member, thereby resulting in rotation of the tubular member in the first rotational direction. When the shaft member is rotated in a second rotational direction, the clutch unit disconnects the shaft member and the tubular member, and enables the pushing member to drive rotation of the tubular member in the second rotational direction.

Abstract: A rotatable rod includes a plurality of cylindrical center rods and a plurality of joints. Each joint connects between corresponding two of the plurality of center rods. Each of opposed ends of each center rod has at least one engaging projection, which projects from the end of the center rod in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the center rod. Each of opposed ends of each joint has at least one engaging recess, each of which is engaged with a corresponding one of the at least one engaging projection that is provided in an adjacent one of the ends of a corresponding one of the plurality of center rods.

Abstract: An assembly for covering an opening comprises a movable cover having a first flexible cover part that can be wound on or off a winding tube, a second rigid cover part attached to the first cover part at the end of latter remote from the winding tube and a third flexible cover part attached to the second cover part at the end of latter remote from the first cover part, wherein the free end of the third cover part extends around a reversing member which is movable by a first driving member, which free end is connected to a second driving member, and wherein the ratio between the winding velocity V1 of the winding tube, and thus the first and second cover parts, the driving velocity V2 of the first driving member and the driving velocity V3 of the second driving member is such, that V1+V3=2 V2, whereas V3>V2>V1>0.

Abstract: A high load operation industrial roll door, including a flexible door curtain windable about a top roll positioned above a door opening and provided with a drive system. The roll door includes a bottom beam fastened to the door curtain, and a biasing spring, for resisting movement of the door upon application of a load thereon, and a positive stop preventing movement of the biasing means beyond a predetermined point.

Abstract: There is provided a load collapse prevention device including a pair of holders (5) fixedly attached to parts of the inner wall of a vehicle compartment, at both ends thereof, in a vehicle-width direction, on the side of the ceiling, respectively, so as to opposite to each other, each having a stopper for engaging a joint, wherein the holders (5) each have a lead-in part (11A, 11B), formed by notching parts of the side faces and lower face of the holder, forming a guide groove wide width part (14), and a guide groove (10) continuing from the lead-in parts (11A, 11B) to the stopper, thereby introducing a stay (2) from the lower part of the holders into the guide groove (10) while the joint is in as-retracted state, then guiding the stay (2) to the stopper. As a result, with load collapse prevention device, the joints can be fitted to the holders, respectively, by one-handed operation, and the respective joints on the right and left sides can be concurrently and easily fitted to the respective holders (5).

Abstract: A sunshade assembly for a vehicle roof has a window shade that is movable along guide rails toward the front and rear of the vehicle. Drive elements are connected to a front edge of the window shade, and rotatable tension wheels are mounted to the guide rail and coupled with the drive elements to pull taut a front portion of the window shade disposed between the front edge and the tension wheels.

Abstract: An improved pull-strap assembly (20) made from webbing material (21) that forms a strap (23) the material (21) looped back on itself at its first or one end to form along the strap's length two layers of mated material (42) along which multiple openable pockets (42s, 44m) are formed and spaced from one another, the other or second end of strap (23) being looped backed on itself to form a pull loop (31). An openable pocket (44) is produced at the strap's first end and the multiple openable pockets (44m) are spaced therefrom along the length of strap (23). A connector (47) having a stem (48) and an enlarged head (49) at each end of stem (48) mounts in any one of the pockets (44s, 44m), with its enlarged head (49) of connector (47) abutting the edges of strap (23). In assemblage of pull-strap assembly (20) to a roller-tube assembly (30), connector (47) in a particular one of pockets (44s, 44m) is fed through a hole in a slot-and-hole arrangement (55, 52), FIGS. 5, 9, and as in FIG.

Abstract: A motor vehicle has a safety apparatus having an extensible safety net having an outer edge, a rigid end element provided on the outer edge and having a fitting, and a holder on the motor-vehicle body having a seat in which the fitting is engageable when the net is deployed. A latch element is movable in the holder between a holding position extending into the seat and retaining the fitting therein in the deployed condition of the net and a freeing position clear of the seat and permitting the fitting to move into and out of the seat. This latch element has a control edge operable to displace the latch element into the freeing position. An actuator on the end element is engageable with the fitting when the fitting is retained by the latch element in the seat and can displace the latch element into the freeing position.

Abstract: In order to enclose selected areas of a property from viewing by strangers, a structure is provided employing canisters with telescoping members. Screen rolls are provided which can be strung between the telescoping members when they are raised to a height desired by the user to screen an area from strangers to the owners of the property. The telescoping members may be driven between raised and lowered positions by a motor or a hand crank. In one embodiment, the structure is associated with a deck which may extend from a house, in which case the canisters may be secured to the deck floor or legs of the deck. In the alternative, the canisters may be buried full depth in the ground and the telescoping members rise out of the ground to support the screens.

Abstract: The screening arrangement is meant for screening of a window which is built into a roof surface and comprises a flexible screening body with a bottom bar in connection with the free end of the bar. A top casing for the screening arrangement is placed at the top frame or sash member of the window and comprises a reception means, such as a roller. The screening arrangement comprises at least on rotatable connection which permits a displacement of the screening body to a position in which it forms an angle with the roof surface and is positioned within the end wall of the top casing. The reception means is situated essentially in the plane of the screening, the top casing having such a form that it follows the form of the window at the top frame or sash member.

Abstract: A tarpaulin can be connected by clamp devices to a beam assembly for transfer of the beam through a tarpaulin handling machine. The beam assembly has a number of parallel, through beam rods and on each beam rod a number of beam tubes, which are alternatingly rigidly connected to a corresponding beam tube on a neighboring beam rod and are rotatable on the beam rod.

Abstract: A window shade for motor vehicles has a pull rod arrangement which, by means of actuating elements running through the guide rails, is moved in a positive manner away from the winding shaft as toward it. To this end, a positively acting coupling is provided between the pull rod arrangement and the respective actuating element.

Abstract: A weighting assembly for a roller shade fabric includes an elongated hem bar having opposite open ends and defining an internal cavity communicating with the open ends. A spline secured to an end of the fabric is slidingly received in a pocket defined within the cavity through one of the ends. The pocket includes an opening communicating with the rest of the cavity for passage of the fabric to an exterior through an elongated slot in the hem bar. After the fabric is wrapped on an exterior surface of the hem bar, a portion of the fabric is fed into the cavity through the slot to form a loop for slidingly receiving an elongated rod through one of the ends. The rod has a diameter that is greater than a width of the slot to prevent removal of the rod through the slot.

Abstract: A windup window shade is provided with windup window shade mechanism which, in the extracted state, make possible different degrees of opacity at the window. To this end, the two window shade web can either be wound on separate windup shafts and spread out in the same direction from the same starting point, or the two window shade webs have been connected with each other and, after having been extended, are moved in the manner of a film in front of the window. Two windup shafts are employed in both cases, wherein in the one case the two windup shafts are located directly next to each other, while in the other case the windup shafts are separated from each other during the extension of the shade.

Abstract: A blind for a window has a winding rod and a hanging wound onto the winding rod. Two belts on opposed sides of the hanging are supported on four end rollers arranged in pairs. A drive is connected to a first end roller or to an additional drive roller and drives the belts in a circulating movement. The winding rod rotates synchronously with the circulating belts. A leading end of the hanging is attached laterally to the belts. A device for compensating a reduction of a circumference of the hanging on the winding rod during gradual unwinding from the winding rod is provided. A circumference of the first roller or of the additional drive roller is smaller than a circumference of the hanging when wound completely onto the winding rod and is greater than a circumference of the hanging when completely unwound from the winding rod.

Abstract: A barrier includes a curtain vertically movable between a closed and open position. The curtain is interposed between right and left vertical tracks, which guide the curtain's movement. A drive unit raises and lowers a right edge of the curtain, while a clever strap system supports the curtain's left edge. The strap system includes a strap having one end fixed to an upper end of the left track and an opposite end fixed to a lower end of the right track. The strap runs across a leading edge of the curtain while passing across a left side roller and a right side roller mounted to opposite ends of the curtain's leading edge. The strap runs underneath the left roller to support the left side of the curtain. The strap runs across the top of the right roller to keep the strap from simply dropping out from underneath the left roller.

Abstract: In an awning, in particular a sun room awning, comprising a fabric-roll shaft for retracting and extending an awning fabric; wherein the inward end of the awning fabric is joined to the fabric-roll shaft and the outward end of the awning fabric to a drop-out bar, and the drop-out bar is run in lateral guide rails; wherein elastic pull straps act on the drop-out bar on the side opposite the awning fabric, the pull straps being deviated by a deflection pulley in the vicinity of the end of the guide rail, and reversed towards the fabric-roll shaft and wound on the fabric-roll shaft upon extension and unwinding of the awning fabric and exercising tensile stress on the drop-out bar and thus on the awning fabric; wherein unwinding the awning fabric and winding up the pull straps take place by an electric motor drive of the fabric-roll shaft, and switchgear is provided for switching off the drive of the fabric-roll shaft upon complete extension; it is provided that the switchgear acts on the drive of the fabric-roll

Abstract: A retractable cover system for open top end containers, such as tractor trailers, is described. A tarp is wound on a drum and stored in a forward top end of the container. Opposed side seam portions of the tarp are secured to nylon pull cables and extend in guide channels secured adjacent top edges of opposed side walls of the container. The cables are secured together at a predetermined location and wound on a pulley whereby to pull the tarp from the drum in unison across the open top end. The drum is also secured to a pulley which is driven by a drive train assembly which also drives the cable pulley. The drive train assembly has a driven shaft and an idle shaft disposed in parallel and interconnected by a pair of sprockets which are secured on clutches.

Abstract: A sunshade apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a motor adapted to be rotated in both directions, a rope drum rotated by the motor, a pair of cables coupled to and wound around the rope drum, a pair of sliders connected to the pair of cables and moved by rotation of the rope drum, a pair of actuating bars pivotably coupled to the pair of sliders and tilted by relative movement of the sliders, a shade bar pivotably coupled to the other ends of the pair of actuating bars, a screen coupled to the shade bar, and a take-up shaft coupled to the other end of the screen and intended to elastically wind the screen. A drive assembly including the motor and the rope drum is mounted in a trunk to be isolated from an interior of an automobile, preventing transmission of noise from the assembly to the interior. The cables are maintained in tightened condition by a simple element, improving operational reliability of the apparatus.

Abstract: A drive device for at least one sunshade intended to darken a surface of a motor vehicle roof. The drive device having a pull element to which the free end of at least one sunshade is attached such that each sunshade can be wound onto a winding roller and also having at least one mounting rod which is mounted with a capacity to swivel with respect to the pull element and to which the free end of at least one sunshade is connected.

Abstract: A cargo area divider, has a flexible planar structure that can be pulled out and is held at a rear end on a roller-shade shaft and at a front end is equipped with a pull-out bar that extends over the entire width of the planar structure. The pull-out bar is conformingly into a hollow chamber region of a cover profile extending at least over the width of the planar structure.

Abstract: A windup window shade for motor vehicles has a rotatably seated windup shaft, on which a window shade web is fastened by an edge. The other edge is fastened on a traction rod, whose ends are guided in guide rails. The distance between the guide rails changes very greatly, viewed in the direction of movement of the window shade web, because of which the length of the traction rod can be changed in a telescope-like manner. It is composed of a center element and two end elements, wherein it is provided with the aid of a centering device that the center element always remains centered in respect to the end elements.

Abstract: A windshield covering system for conveniently covering a windshield to prevent ice and frost build up on the windshield. The windshield covering system includes a flexible panel having a handle assembly and a storage container for storing the panel and handle assembly.

Abstract: A rear windowpane roll-up blind is reeled out with the aid of actuating levers 9, 11. The actuating levers 9, 11 are the sole elements which carry the pull rod 13 of the roll-up blind 5. In order to prevent a damaging of the heating wires on the inside of the rear window pane 4, guide rollers 56 are rotatably supported on the outer ends of the pull rod 13. Mechanisms 42 70 are provided which allow the guide rollers 56 to yield under spring tension so that the force with which the rollers 56 are pressed on the pane 4 is held within a prescribed range regardless of installation and vehicle body tolerances.

Abstract: A windup window shade has a windup shaft and a window shade web fastened on it. The window shade web is provided with a traction rod, which is moved at both ends by means of drive members along the guide rails. A compensating device is provided to compensate assembly tolerances or shape tolerances, which assures that too great tensions extending parallel with the windup shaft do not occur in the window shade web, which would lead to obliquely extending waves in the extended window shade web.

Abstract: A balcony and a shield including first and second shielding sections. The sections define corresponding first and second shielding screens. The shield includes a mounting rod defining a rod attachment section and a rod spacing section. The rod attachment section is sized so as to extend from the footrail to the handrail of the balcony banister. The rod spacing section extends from the rod attachment section and is adapted to extend upwardly away from the handrail. A securement component secures the rod attachment section to both the handrail and the footrail. A linking component securely links the first shielding section to the rod spacing section above the second shielding section.

Abstract: In a sun room awning, comprising a rotating-drivable roll bar with an awning cloth, lateral guide rails for the awning cloth, and tensioning straps as well as tautening means for the awning cloth that engage at the front end of the awning cloth or at a drop-out rail, it is provided that the tensioning straps are designed elastic in the longitudinal direction, at least in sections, to exert tension onto the awning cloth in order to achieve a construction ensuring a taut, visually attractive fit regardless of the extended position of the awning cloth.

Abstract: The roll-up door assembly enables the garage or shed to be used as an extra room. The assembly comprises the door cover, the opener mechanism and the frame structure. A canvas roll-up door fits over the opening of the elongated entryway of the garage. The door mechanism is similar to the mechanism on a home awing. The canvas includes screens covering window openings to enable ventlization throughout the room. The size of the window openings can be varied by employing roll-up window covers with ties to adjust temperature and airflow within the garage. Velcro® is used to affix the canvas to the side members of the frame structure of the garage. The assembly can either be installed as a unit as an attachment that fits onto the front frame structure of a conventional garage or can be integral with the existing frame structure. The opener mechanism is either manual or automatic.

Abstract: A rolling door is provided with a flexible door panel which can be wound upon a winding shaft pivoted above the door opening and provided with a drive. On the bottom end of the door panel, a stop rail of length less than clear span between side sections limiting door opening, is provided at two ends with fastening for wires running over pulleys supported in a bottom region and bracing the door panel. In the side sections, slide-like blocks are guided vertically slidably, detachably connected to the ends of the stop rail by a retainer and provided with breakthroughs for the wires running from the pulleys in the bottom region to the stop rail. To restore the rolling door to operation simply and where possible even automatically after a crash, the retainer is constituted by locking devices which release the stop rail in the event of force acting thereon from the side and which, when the blocks are pressed on from above, again interlock the stop rail and blocks.

Abstract: A roll-up window blind (5) for automobile rear windows panes (4) has two actuating levers (9, 11) with which the pullrod (13) is moved in the direction of reeling-out or reeling-in of the blind material (12). The levers (9, 11) are borne in such manner that, in the reeled-out state, the pullrod (13) is pressed with a tension force against the rear window pane (4). In order to avoid any damage to the heating wires, the pullrod (13) is provided on its ends with guide elements (41), which are mounted movably on the pullrod (13). With the blind (5) reeled out, they project over the outer contour of the pullrod (13) and, as they themselves come to lie on the rear window pane (4), they hold the pullrod (13) at a distance from the rear window pane (4). On reeling-in they are retracted behind the outer contours of the pullrod (13), so that they can be retracted into the slot (7) from which the blind material emerges, and, namely, without recesses for the guide elements being necessary on the slot edges (22).

Abstract: A windup window shade is provided with windup window shade means which, in the extracted state, make possible different degrees of opacity at the window. To this end, two window shade web are wound on separate windup shafts. Two window shade webs are wound onto separate windup shafts for this purpose. Only a single drive motor is required for the selective extension of one or the other window shade web.

Abstract: In connection with a window arrangement for a motor vehicle, a windup window shade has been pre-assembled on the inside of the window. The windup window shade is preassembled either completely or in its essential parts, so that assembly of the vehicle at the assembly line is considerably simplified.

Abstract: A cargo area divider for a vehicle is provided which can be automatically transferred into an operative position or a non-operative position by a motor drive. Monitors for locking mechanisms of the operative position serve to dynamically block a roller blind shaft for the divider. Also, it is provided to monitor a loading level of the cargo area and to trigger an automatic transfer of a divider net or a partition wall into the operating position in response to the loading level exceeding a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A rear windowpane roll-up blind is reeled out with the aid of actuating levers 9, 11. The actuating levers 9, 11 are the sole elements which carry the pull rod 13 of the roll-up blind 5. In order to prevent a damaging of the heating wires on the inside of the rear window pane 4, guide rollers 56 are rotatably supported on the outer ends of the pull rod 13. Mechanisms 42 70 are provided which allow the guide rollers 56 to yield under spring tension so that the force with which the rollers 56 are pressed on the pane 4 is held within a prescribed range regardless of installation and vehicle body tolerances.

Abstract: A motorized window blind includes a mounting frame stretched in a longitudinal direction, a blind screen including a mounted end mounted on the mounting frame, a liftable end opposite to the mounted end in a transverse direction relative to the longitudinal direction, and a flexible intermediate portion interposed therebetween. A motor has an output shaft and is mounted in the vicinity of the mounting frame so as to drive a drive transmitting member to move a distal end of the drive transmitting member in the transverse direction between retracted and extended positions where the distal end is proximate and distal to the mounting frame, respectively. A plurality of tubes are telescopically fitted to each other, and extend in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A rear window roll-up blind for motor vehicles is provided which has a winding shaft that is rotatably supported preferably under the hat deposit area. A blind material can be drawn through a slot in the hat deposit area out which covers the window (3). For this purpose, an actuating member engages on the edge of the blind material (11) that covers the greatest distance. The actuating member is a linear-form element which can be either tension-resistant or pressure-resistant. The blind material itself can be held clamped-open beside the window with the aid of at least one guide rail or one or two pressure- or bending-resistant actuating members.

Abstract: A sunshade curtain device has a main shaft, a positioning device, a first movable device, a second movable device, a third movable device, a bobbin, and a rope. A curtain fabric surrounds the main shaft. The main shaft is disposed on a lower edge of a window. A lower end of the positioning device is disposed on the lower edge of the window. The first movable device engages with the positioning device. The second movable device engages with the first movable device. The third movable device engages with the second movable device.

Abstract: The mounting and parallel guidance arrangement comprises a mounting bar (1) designed for releasable interconnection with the bottom bar of the screening device and having a through-going hollowness, two parallel guidance cords (2, 3), each being led through said mounting bar and comprising end parts which protrude from each end of the mounting bar, and installation brackets (4-7) for the free end of each of the end parts. The two installation brackets (4, 6; 5, 7) for a cord are meant to be fastened at the top of a first main frame or sash side member and at the bottom of the other main frame or sash side member opposite in relation to the first one, respectively. The releasable inter-connection of the mounting bar (1) with the bottom bar can be effected by means of clips.

Abstract: A portable screen assembly includes first and second frames extending parallel to each other, a spring-biased roll rotatably mounted in the first frame, and a screen bonded at its one end to the second frame and wound around the spring-biased roll. An extender is provided for biasing the first and second frames away from each other to impart a predetermined tension to the screen. During use of the portable screen assembly, the first and second frames are supported generally verically by a purality of support legs.

Abstract: A roof window having an upper edge and a lower edge is provided with a shade assembly that has a flexible shade having a pair of opposite ends, a rotatable shaft attached to one of the shade ends, and a mount rotatably supporting the shaft at the lower window edge. A motor and spring unit attached to the shaft and to the other of the shade ends can wind the shade around the shaft in an open position of the assembly and unwind the shade from the shaft and pull it up along the window until the other shade end is at the upper edge in a closed position of the assembly. A pair of guides extend generally parallel to each other between the window edges. The one shade end is displaceable along the guides and respective cables attached to the one shade end extend along the guides. The shade assembly further has a stiff bar extending along the one shade edge and rollers on ends of the bar riding in the guides and attached to the cables.

Abstract: A rolling window screen assembly for use with a window assembly. The screen assembly is deployable in at least three positions. The first engagement position exists wherein the flexible screen may be extended over the entire window. The second engagement position exists wherein the flexible screen is releasably engaged to a sash to enable the flexible screen o be deployed dynamically according to the position of the sash. Finally, the flexible screen may be disengaged from the window assembly and retracted to expose substantially all of the window opening. A pull-cord apparatus having a pull-down non-elastic cord interfacing with an elastic take-up cord may be utilized for manipulating the flexible screen.

Abstract: A tandem windbar system for a flexible curtain rollup door includes a first windbar adapted to be guided in opposed guide channels of a door assembly and supported by flexible strap members which are secured at one end to a rotatable drum for rolling a flexible curtain closure member onto and off of the drum to open and close the door. Opposite ends of the strap members are secured to stationary structure, such as the upper ends of opposed guide channels for the door curtain and the first windbar. A second windbar is supported below the first windbar by opposed flexible straps which are operably connected at one end to the first windbar by a bearing tube member which may rotate relative to and is supported on the first windbar. The straps of the second set are trained around and support the second windbar and are connected at their opposite ends to the curtain drum for rolling onto and off of the drum. The second windbar ascends and descends at 1.

Abstract: A door maneuvering arrangement for opening and closing a door. The arrangement includes a line loop connected to a part of the door, a drive wheel, a motor for reversibly rotating the drive wheel and a plurality of guide pulleys for guiding the line loop. First guide pulleys are mounted in the vicinity of the drive wheel and cause a first line section of the line loop to bear on and extend in an omega-shape path around a first portion of the circumference of the drive wheel. Second guide pulleys are mounted in the vicinity of the drive wheel and caused a second line section of the line loop to bear on and extend in an omega-shape path around a second portion of the circumference of the drive wheel.

Abstract: In a blind device, comprising a fixed frame 1, at least a pair of arms 5 each having an end pivotally attached to the fixed frame, a moveable frame 4 which is adapted to move toward and away from the fixed frame in a parallel relationship by rotational movements of the two arms, and a light-shielding screen 3 having one end fixedly attached to and wound around a roll 2 which is pivotally supported by the fixed frame, and another end fixedly attached to the moveable frame, characterized by that; a pivot shaft for pivotally supporting each arm on the fixed frame is incorporated with spring means 16 which resiliently urges the corresponding arm toward its upright position, and the blind device further comprises an electric actuator 17 having reverse drive preventing means for applying a rotative force to the roll so as to wind the screen thereon against a spring force of the spring means.

Abstract: A permanently mounted vehicle shade draws a blind across an aperture that is formed by the vehicle chassis, in order to shade the vehicle interior. To do this, a pair of hollow guide tracks are mounted on the chassis opposite the aperture from each other. For each guide track, a carriage is threaded onto a drive screw, and the drive screw is coaxially mounted for rotation within the hollow of the track. Each guide track also has a longitudinal slot, and each end of the rod is inserted into a respective slot and attached to a respective carriage. This positions the rod across the aperture. Next, a supply roller is permanently mounted on the vehicle chassis parallel to the rod. One end of the blind is attached to the rod, and the other end is attached to the supply roller. For operation, the drive screws are selectively rotated in unison. The rotation of the drive screws is converted into translational motion of the carriages, to move the attached rod and draw the blind across the aperture.